Profile
Cloud & datacenter leader with 20+ years of experience — from hands-on systems administration to technical management at group level. Expert in designing and operating large-scale hybrid cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes). ITILv4 practitioner. Guides organisations through cloud transformation by combining deep technical expertise, team leadership, budget ownership, and delivery of complex critical projects.
Experience
Head of Cloud & Datacenter
Sept 2025 — Present
SAUR · Freelance · Île-de-France
- Technical leadership of cloud and datacenter infrastructure for the group
- Cloud strategy, governance, architecture standards and technical roadmap
- Multi-site team management, talent acquisition, budget ownership
- Vendor management and direct interface with executive leadership
Alliance Cloud Engineer Manager
Jan 2020 — Sept 2025
Renault Digital / SYLPHEO · Boulogne-Billancourt
- Platform operations: Cloud Foundry (PaaS) + Azure infrastructure for connected vehicles — Renault & Nissan
- Deployed centralised Grafana monitoring on AKS — reduced incident resolution time from 15 days to 48h max
- Containerisation and right-sizing programme → cloud costs −30%
- Recruited and led high-performance technical teams and contractors
- Rearchitected Big Data infrastructure; Azure resource provisioning and cost optimisation
Cloud Manager & On-Prem Infrastructure Manager
Apr 2019 — Dec 2019
Believe Digital · Porte de Saint-Ouen
- Technical management of hybrid infrastructure (multi-datacenter on-prem + cloud)
- Infrastructure audits, evolution proposals, performance and resilience improvements
- Initial AWS deployments — Big Data workloads; on-call management and incident response
Operations Manager & Group IT Director
Apr 2015 — Nov 2018
Gibmedia / Mobiyo · Levallois-Perret
- Designed and built private cloud on OpenStack + Proxmox-VE across 2 datacenters for internal and production workloads
- Migration roadmap, agile project management, technical standards and tool selection
- Team management and coaching; recruitment of senior technical profiles; ISO 27001 / PCI-DSS compliance
Operations Manager
May 2013 — Apr 2015
miLibris · Paris
- In-house CDN + GeoDNS serving 8M+ readers — digital press distribution platform
- Full infrastructure overhaul: migrated to Proxmox-VE on dedicated OVH servers
- Database performance optimisation, application profiling, monitoring & alerting stack
- Release lifecycle procedures, security hardening of access
Support & Operations Engineer
Jan 2009 — May 2013
Masternaut · Suresnes
- High-availability infrastructure for embedded fleet telematics solutions
- Monitoring, mail & SMS alert architecture, VPN Roadwarrior, remote site management
- Production process automation, energy backup solutions, on-call management
Systems & Network Administrator
2005 — 2009
EDD · Nexen Services · CVF (Orange) · APRIL · Paris region
- HA web & mail infrastructure, B2B hosting, VoIP (Asterisk administration), Prestashop as a Service
- Monitoring, virtualisation, LDAP/AD, DNS (BIND/PowerDNS), load balancing
- R&D on information systems: PHP CMS, multi-site applications, alumni management